Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

I note that a major commercial map (left, compared to OSM on the right) isn’t showing the massive new reservoir behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam™. It started filling in 2020.

Californians, the forecast for tomorrow has moved from very rainy to dangerously rainy; please plan accordingly. https://weatherwest.com/archives/35471

I also like mergesort. Where’s its thinkpieces?

I guess the weird thing about LLMs for me is that I am used to favoring derpy, weird, fundamentally old technology, and it’s unpleasant that in this case it’s also favored by the VC hype machine and its army of orcs.

Was about the type the year in a filename and thought “don’t forget one of the digits changed” and my fingers came up with 2014.

Freeform asynchronous text. I’m not saying it’s better than anything else in particular, but it’s very good.

I still like e-mail as a medium for friendships. I may be the only one, but I do.

As a programmer I try not to be a Big Opinions Guy but I’ll tell you this much: for personal projects, I would rather gnaw my own kneecaps off than write SQL keywords in capital letters like it’s 1805.

There’s an RDA of irony in these poisoning techniques that can’t credibly do what they’re advertised as doing because they’re surface-level technological fixes to more fundamental problems. [Edit: fixed typo.] https://mastodon.social/@urschrei/111794083320504980

I think this phrase is, situationally, sometimes more true than false. But if you hear someone say it, odds are really good they want to measure instead of managing. https://indieweb.social/@dandean/111784409154249713

Rot in hell, you smug monster, and may the people you killed in Chile, Cambodia, Palestine, Bangladesh, East Timor, Argentina … I’m sorry, I’m reading the wrong eulogy. I’m so sorry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/

@berd https://psb1558.github.io/Junicode-font/ may be of interest to you: notice the old-style punctuation spacing mode.

This piece is good. The refusal to rebut SA’s filing on the merits seems like an unforced error. A lot of us have had to learn to spot what it looks like when a powerful person is asked a question they know would hurt too much to answer, and this is the instance whose stipple portrait will be kept in the history books. South Africa is playing by the rules and doing the work in very thoughtful way here. https://foreverwars.ghost.io/south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-is-serious/